Peter Bartlett of Bartlett Farms in Bottineau said the requirement has only been placed on larger dairies sending milk off to be pasteurized at this time.

The Oregon Department of Agriculture said in a release late Wednesday that certain dairy processors will collect samples of raw milk and send them to the state’s Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory on the Oregon State University campus to test for a virulent strain of bird flu — the H5N1 virus — which is common in wild birds and spread during migrations.

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